Poetry:I

I Don't Think
I Dwell On You
Impact
I Will You To
In The Mourning
In The Ruins
Iscariot



I Don't Think

i don't think i meant to break a sweat,

to scream so loud,

to hurt so much,

oh,

this picture in my head...


i don't think you said those words, the most important ones, the pain-filled ones, the comparing ones, oh, the whispers in my bed...


the greatest irony of all,

summer, friend leaves, fall

to break me, melt me, turn me,

kill me, cry me oh my....at all...


life don't think,

just moves me still,

i flow, to need, to feel, to breathe,

to skip, so high, so dead,

oh,

this picture in my head...




I Dwell On You

Sometimes I awake to clouds in morning skies.

I dwell on you.


Sometimes I dream sweet dreams and with deep eyes

I dwell on you.


I say "Oh Honey" Don't be so scared,

don't cave in. 'Cause this is Love.

I dwell on you.


Sometimes you wrap yourself in a tangled net.

All I can do is cry and you say, "I Love You"


And then I wake to cloudless morning skies.

I dwell on you.


And then I curl up next to you and whisper,

with deep eyes, "I Love You, too"




Impact

like the roses at my feet

thorns pricking at my toes

i'm not quite sure about phone

i just know my ringing foes


slide between my open teeth

down the road i see a gate

saw the hands all on the wall

behind the looking glass we mate


and you feel yourself

cause it's all been changed

all the colors brightened

your thoughts rearranged


quite the shell i've locked you in

must be shameful for the rest

can't believe its' come

now i keep you unconfessed


and you feel yourself

tightened by the twist

hidden in the broken

feel the impact of that fist




I Will You To

doubtful thoughts blaze through

my shiv'ring mind. i am willing you to stay.


pouting smiles play at my tender

lips; i am begging you, heal the wounds that

you did not cause


lights that went out in the wind; these

were left burning one hour too late.


games were played with toys..unwound

and she steps away from the line that was

drawn... by none other than herself


waiting for words that she wanted to hear;

i am willing you to whisper sweet nothings into my

poor forsaken heart.


No voice will speak at all....for words are all I

have left. I will you to stay.




In The Mourning

Alone, I sit here,

In a world forsaken of thought


In the young, sweet hours of the morning,

Bringing ghosts of the past

To life


I tries to explain my proposterous thoughts,

To defend my 'inappropriate' behavior


But like their minds, their ears are closed,

Along with the doors once

Opened for them


Concerned with death, unable to live,

You let life inhale you and

Cast you out as

Ashes and Dust.


Words are nothing

Why talk when you can worship silently

While your children mourn

For the dreams they've never seen.


Let God alone and believe in

What you have faith in to be right and good and true

And that faith will lead you onto

A straighter road




In the Ruins

An occasional note of hind'rence

in a voice soothed and calm,

awaiting the future in graceful, open strides


Blaring past and empty shell,

lifeless and dull,

wandering beyond the better path of time


We used to do the things we

believed in,

not which were expected of us


Like an unexpected melody,

with some of

the harmonies absent,

we compensate by humming softly to ourselves


Inner strength captured for a moment

among the ruins where

we once played,

disbarred,

abondoned here.




Iscariot

lace upon my eyebrow

and love beneath my feet

the shadows of velvet lie

all around me in little patches of memory


tears upon my bracelet

and silk beneath my eyes

the coils of satin bask

all through me in peels of orange sunburn


books upon my lips

and cotton on my skin

the bones of psyche crave

another life within these foriegn bindings


the secrets lie within

the shells of some

far off and darkened green

the badge of armor;

initialed day


and stranger fruits lied

outside his lock'd door

and pink with heart we linger

to see the outcome of this crooked awakening